Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-06-16
ON SEA AND LAND.
Terrible Loss of Life by the Cal
cutta Cyclone.
Cloud Burst In Ohio-Shocking Holocaust
Earthquake in Canada-Rallroad
Collisions Five Boys
Drowned.

CALCUTTA, June TIT has been proved
beyond doubt by the picking up of the
captains chest that the steamer Sir John
Lawrence was lost in the recent cyclone
off this coast. The steamer carried $50
passengers and it is believed the whole
number were lost. The largest part Of the
passengers were native ladies who were
going to Orissa to celebrate the Jugger-
naut festival. The catastrophe has cast a
feeling of gloom over the Hindoo communi-
ty and all the best families are in mourning
for relatives or friends who were among
the passengers.
A CLOUD BURST.
CLEVELAND, o., June 7.-During the thun-
derstorm Sunday a cloud burst over the
village of Grafton, O., flooding the streets
in few minutes The culvert of the Cleve>
land. Lorain & Wheeling railroad was soon
washed out, the abutments being carried
into field. A chasm fifty feet wide was
caused. At Oil creek, two miles from
Grafton, a bridge was washed out just as
freight train was crossing. The engine
and a few cars crossed in safety, but seven
teen cars went down with the wreck. Two
miles east, on the Cleveland, Columbus,
Cincinnati & Indianapolis road, is a wash
out of thirty feet Wagon bridges were
washed away in many places. Cellars were
fued with water and much damage done.
MOTHER AND CHILDREN BURNED.
GRAND Forks, u. T., June 7.-During the
absence of Bokken, a Norwegian farmer,
at a neighbours house, Mrs. BOkken and
two children, aged respectively three and
four years, were left at home. The mother
left the house, and on returning she found
the room in which she had left the children
fire Quickly snatching the youngest
child, she made rush for the door, in do
ing which she upset a kerosene can, the oil
igniLiug and setting fire to her clothes.
She succeeded in getting out of doors,
ouIln 1oid thkas har
arms. Both were literally roasted to death.
The other child burned to death IN the
house.
a CANADIAN EARTHQUAKE.
QUEBDC, June News has been received
of an earthquake, which recently occurred
in the vicinity of Ste. Louise, in
the County rIslet, Province of Quebec.
The mountains in the second range of the
Seignory, of st. Roch des Aulnais were
greatly disturbed. Masses of rock from
forty to fifty feet square were dlslodged
and sent hurting into the valley below.
Some of the largest trees in the forest
were uprooted. In one instance the rocks
falling from he mountains broke trees of
the largest dimensions for distance Of
200 feet. No serious accidents are re-
ported.
COLLISION.
CLEVELAND, O., June AT the crossing
of the Baltimore & Ohio and Cleveland,
roads at Shelby, last night freight on the
former ran into passing freight on the
latter Twenty-Five cars and two engines
were demolished, causing a loss of SO, 600.
Engineer Lyons, of the Baltimore & Ohio,
who lives at Newark, o., was fatally in
jured. The Baltimore & Ohio train had
broken in two, and the engineer was trying
to prevent a collision between the two sec
tions when the accident occurred.
COLLISION IN THE CHANNEL.
LONDON, June IA collision occurred in
the English channel between the British
bark Hamburg, Captain Caldwell, from
New York for Liverpool, and the British
steamer Tern. The steamer was sunk and
her captain and four seamen were drowned.
The Tern was from Mediterranean port.
BOYS DROWNED.
DAVENPORT, Ia, June 7.-Three boys
named Beck and two named Hingle, of
MaQuoketo, not one of them over sixteen
years of age, were drowned yesterday
while bathing in the Maquoketa river, near
the city of that name.